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Posted by gnat on February 2, 2000 at 23:53:24

In Reply to: LOL! posted by Victor Khomenko on February 2, 2000 at 06:15:10:

Hi, Victor

>>>
Are you on some sort of Internet diet or is this sixteen tons of self-control?
<<<

Main reason is my slow thinking of course. Work load plays
some role also. :) I had kinda "avral" last few days.

>>>
I had discovered that the SVT was too young for me - I started feeling
like Roman Polanski. So I went deeper into the late 19th century.
Beaumonts, Vetterlies, Krags, Berthier's, Lebels, that sort of things.
Keeps my lathe busy too, making replacement parts for them (the screw on
the Beaumont broke during firing - but it only flew about six feet).
Keeps me in the basement too, so my wife knows where to find me - no
booze, no girls... so she doesn't mind. I need to be alert, though, to
hide my latest acquisitions before she descends into the workshop - she
needs to be introduced to them gradually, you know... like Napoleon to
arsenic...
<<<

Uhh... muskets, arkebuses, arbalets are in order I guess?
Such gradual introduction is *vital* with that kind of hobby,
since these things can be USED against you... I dunno why but
sometimes wives are dangerous even without guns, right?

>>>
My wife couterbalances by making endless secret phone calls to Victor
Kamkin - THE priemier perveyour of Russin literature in this part of the
world. Since we kicked our daugher out of the house, my wife moved in
and ocupied her former bedroom, demolishing the built-in closet to get
more space for bookshelves (while I was away for the show, of course...).
Then - boxes, and boxes and more boxes from Rockville (Kamkin's
base) and now she is talking about tearing down the wall - the shelves
in two rooms are full (and I am talking about two good size rooms) with
the stuff she could not get enough of while back in Peter.

Any hot new writers there? She is such bookworm...
<<

My *special* greetings to her, since we share same passion.

Actually, last time I did research in modern writers myself was ~1990.
Well, there was Dm Galkovsky "Beskonechnyi Tupik". He's a follower of
Vas. Rosanov, so the book is an acquired taste.

Recently I asked my friend about new guys, he recommended Vic Pelevin
"Chapaev & Pustota". I've read it. Can't say I was heavily impressed,
but it wasn't a waste of time at least.

There's Alexandra Marinina. Wannabe Agatha. Worth checking. Get ONE (any:)
of her EARLIER books. Last one or two are boring.

I like Maria Semenova, "Volkodav". I think it's a *literature*, despite
slight Konan-ness.

Ohh and personally for you, Tolstoi "War and Peace" of course! ;) There
is an interesting trick. It's kinda coctail. "W&P" has four parts, and
Dostoevsky "Karamasoff Bros" have four as well. Read these books in
*interleaved* order : 1st part of "W&P", 1st of "KB", 2nd of "W&P" and
so forth. I did it once. Stopped after 5th part of coctail. I wasn't
bored, but *scared* by spiritual experience. Unforgettable.
BTW, "War and Peace" title is wrong afaik. "Mir" should be translated
as "Society", not "Peace". This main meaning was hidden when spelling
changed in 1917, and before it "Mir-Peace" and "Mir-Society" were
written differently.

>>>
Is the drama theater active and kicking in Moscow? It looks like most people
in Peter had lost their interest in it - life is too complicated for that, I
guess. They used to kill for a BDT tickets... Is Moscow different?
<<<

I feel like Peter kind of guy... lost interest in it. But from what
I heard, drama theater life in Moscow is quite active last years.

regards, gnat

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